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FACT: “For completely different reasons, and in completely different ways, you could say that the Maoists and the Jan Lokpal Bill have one thing in common — they both seek the overthrow of the Indian State.
The campaign is being handled by people who run a clutch of generously funded NGOs whose donors include Coca-Cola and the Lehman Brothers. Kabir, run by Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, key figures in Team Anna, has received $400,000 from the Ford Foundation in the last three years. Among contributors to the India Against Corruption campaign there are Indian companies and foundations that own aluminum plants, build ports and SEZs, and run Real Estate businesses and are closely connected to politicians who run financial empires that run into thousands of crores of rupees. Some of them are currently being investigated for corruption and other crimes. Why are they all so enthusiastic?
Will the 830 million people living on Rs.20 a day really benefit from the strengthening of a set of policies that is impoverishing them and driving this country to civil war?” (ref: Arundhati Roy, thehindu.com 23 August 2011)
OWL WATCH: A mock revolution is being staged by the less moneyed people against the more moneyed people of India. Corruption in private sectors are remaining untouched.There are many corporate who are violating many legal parameters in this country. Anna and Team Anna have not protested any one of it. Is Anna team trying to dictate terms with the help of sentiment of a section from middle class of India against corruption? Issue of price rise is linked with government and other corporate corruptions which is ignored by Anna and team. Only Janlokpal bill cannot bring revolution in India.
Anna and Team Anna are talking about all leaders are corrupt and people are making it a sense that parliament in India is a useless ‘club of idiots’ for the interest of common people. Without having any alternative leadership, pro-people, pro-worker, pro-farmer policies, making a cry ‘all MPs, MLAs false’, only can create a crisis in political India. Civil societies can generate a revolution against government in any single issue. An apolitical society can run politics too. Privatisation of Politics is an idea of Indian politics.
Is Anna hijacking Indian democracy with his single demand for ‘Janlokpal bill’? Team Anna labelled ‘Anna as India’. ‘Anna is India-India is Anna’ is a punch line of the “India against corruption” lobby of the civil societies in India. Anna is an Indian – a rare Indian who protests strongly like ‘bhishma pitamaha’ of India. If Anna cannot think for all Indians, it is early to comment ‘Anna is India’.
